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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...acceptance, or a desire to deceive. It can, and often does, simply mean that one doesn’t care to cater to the biases of a society that assumes heterosexuality to be the default and believes that one’s otherness must be declared in one fell swoop, lest a queer be mistaken for a straight...

Author: By Silpa Kovvali | Title: No Need to Ask or Tell | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

Ever wish there was a way to get a workout, eat less, save water, and cut through the pre-Ec 10 tray return lines in Annenberg all in one fell swoop...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay | Title: BREAKING NEWS: Freshmen Discover Trayless Initiatives | 11/7/2009 | See Source »

...months, Harvard biology post-doctorates Nicola L. Chamberlain and Ryan I. Hill, both authors on the study, stood in an enormous cage of Heliconius butterflies, ready to swoop in and grab males as they fluttered their wings above a female in an attempt to mate...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Butterflies Lend Insights About Speciation | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...Chemistry,” I dejectedly replied, knowing that, with one fell swoop, I had brought that flirting ritual to a halt...

Author: By Frances Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nerd-amorphosis | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...foiled terrorist plot is usually cause for celebration. But the Sept. 19 arrest of two Afghan-born men in connection with plans to bomb targets in the U.S. has left FBI agents frustrated. They had not intended to swoop on their prey quite so soon. Had an informant not tipped off alleged plotters Najibullah Zazi and his father Mohammed, they might still be free men--and useful assets in the hunt for terrorist networks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight: The Zazi Terrorism Case | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

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